Primera División Peruana 2000

The 2000 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.

The national championship was divided into two half-year tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each would play for the national title in a playoff, but since the same club had won both tournaments, it won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to each of the half-year tournaments runners-up, who held a playoff as a formality to decide the overall second place. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place held a relegation/promotion playoff against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Results

Torneo Apertura

econd place playoff

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team1 = Sporting Cristal |score = 2–1|report= |team2 = Sport Boys|goals1=R. Silva M. Hidalgo|goals2 = C. Lobatón|stadium = Estadio Nacional, Lima----
Sporting Cristal second place overall

Relegation/Promotion playoff

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team1 = Deportivo UPAO |score = 3–1|report= |team2 = Deportivo Aviación|goals1=|goals2 = |stadium = Estadio Nacional, Lima----
Deportivo UPAO remained in Primera División Peruana [Deportivo UPAO would sell the franchise to Sport Coopsol before the 2001 season.]

Promotion

*Estudiantes de Medicina promoted to Primera División 2001
**Estudiantes de Medicina (Ica) won the Copa Perú 2000 after defeating Coronel Bolognesi (Tacna) in the two-legged final: 1-0 wins at home and away.

Top scorers

;37 goals
*Eduardo Esidio (Universitario);19 goals
*Luis A. Bonnet (Cienciano);15 goals
*Roberto Holsen (Alianza Lima);13 goals
*James Angulo (Sport Boys);12 goals
*Piero Alva (Universitario)
*Carlos Juárez (Sporting Cristal)
*Sergio Ibarra (Deportivo Wanka)

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesp/peru00.html Peru 2000 season] Details on RSSSF